Glass ornamentation for panels, floors, &amp;c.



Inventor PATBNTED APR. 16, 1907.

Not 850,538.

c. o; NBWMAN. GLASS QRNAMENTATION POR PANELS, FLOORS, Sw. APPLICATION FILED DEU 19 1905 M VZZMWW j attenua? y CHARLES o. NEWMAN, or JAokmSwoiN COUNTY, MISSOURI.

. GLASS'ORNAMENTATION Fon PANELS, FLOORS, as.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented April 16, 1907.

Application tiled December 19,1905. Serial No. 292,466.

To all whom it nca/y concern:

Beit known that I, CHARLES O. NEWMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the county of Jackson andV State of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in Glass Ornamentation for Panels, Floors', &c., of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to im rovements in glass ornamentation forpane s, floors, and similar purposes.

The object of my invention is to provide a novel process, hereinafter fully described and claimed, for making molded plates for flooring, borders, panels, wainscoting, and similar urposes, these plates being sanitary, durab e, and highly artistic ineii'ect.A `The plates produced by my process ar much cheaper to manufacture and are more glass mosaic, for which they my process comprise each a molded body conslstmg of leces of colored glass corres onding in s Iape to the elements forming t e foreground of any desired design and embedded with their faces exposed in positions corresponding to the design in a hardening plastic material corresponding to the back` ground of the design.

l My invention rovides, further, the embedding of the g ass pieces with their faces exposed in relief in the hardening plastic Inaterial, thus bringing out Inore prominently the foreground of the design and presenting an extremely hard and durable surface for receiving Wear.

My Invention provides, further, the tinting with mineral aint the faces of the glass pieces and materia forming the background in colors corresponding to the colors in the design, the painted substances having their ,faces covered with transparent enamel to protect the paint.

Other novel features of my invention are hereinafter fully described and claimed.

` In the-accompanying drawings, which illustrate a means for carrying my process into effect, Figure 1 is a plan view of the mold having aced therein the original designsheet. lig. 2 1s a plan view ofthe mold having placed therein the glass pieces forming the r'foregroundfa portion of the mold conpreferably made of paper.

lforeground of the design.

taining' theA plastichardening material forming the background. Fig. 3 is a cross-section taken on the dotted line a b of Fig. 2.

Similar characters of reference denote simi- .lar parts.

1 denotes a mold of any desired shape and represented as rectangular in the drawings.

2 denotes the original design-sheet, the elements representing the foreground of the design being represented by 3.

3 denote the colored glass pieces corresponding in shape and position to the elements 3 of the design and embedded with their faces exposed, preferably in relief, in a hardening plastic material, denoted by 4, and com osed, preferably, of a mixture of calcine magnesia and a solution of ohlorid of magnesia.

5 denotes a filler thinner than the glass pieces 3 and placed within the mold between the glass pieces, as hereinafter described, and for the purpose of having said glass pieces stand in relief upon the face ofthe molded body or plate. v f

ln carrying out my process the design-sheet 2 is placed face`up in the mold 1, a reproduction of the elements 3 on the said sheet having been previously made upon a sheet 5, (shown in Fig. 3 in exaggerated thickness,) and which l call the nller" or pattern-sheet. The fillerv or pattern-sheet is With a pair Of three-bladed shears each element 3 on the pattern-sheet is cut from the sheet. The cut-out portions` of the pattern-sheet are then used as patterns in cutting from colored sheet-glass, the pieces 3 representing the B y employing the tlIree-bladed shears for cutting out the different pieces ofthe pattern-sheet a narrow strip is cut along every line of the design on the pattern-sheet.

Thus each element or piece 3 cut out of the pattern-sheet is smaller I than the corresponding eleinenti3 on the design-sheet 2. Theglass pieces 3 are cut the same vsize as the cut-out portions of the pattern-sheet, so that when the glass pieces are placed face down in the mold in their proper positions upon the design-sheet 2 a narrow space Will be left between adjacent pieces of glass 3', as shown in Fig. 2. The glass IOO embracing the glass pieces 3', as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The mold 1 is then filled to the depth required with a plastic mixture composed of calcined magnesia and a sufficient quantity of a solution ofchlorid of magnesia to render the mixture plastic. The mold is then permitted to stand until the plastic mixture becomes hardened or set, after which the hardened mixture With the glass 'ieces 3 embedded therein are remove from the mold. The pattern-sheet 5 is then stripped from the molded plate or body, thus leaving the glass pieces 3 standin relief on theface side of the molded Iiiiwill of course be understood that the pieces of glass 3 employed shall correspond, respectively, in color as nearly as possible to the colors represented by the corresponding elements 3 of' the design; but it Will be evident that it would be impracticable, if not impossible, to obtain in the glass pieces exact reproductions of the various tints-as,l for instance, the different tints on the petal of a flower. Where one element of the design embodies different tints, I obtain the same effect in the finished product by coating the face of the glass piece representing the element with mineral paint having the tints corresponding to those desired. When it is -desired to have the background represented by the plastic material 4 tinted to c'orrespond to certain colors representedon the original design-sheet 2, the back ound may be coated with mineral paints o the proper colors, after which a coating of transparent enamel -is Given to the face of the molded body or pli-ate. If desired, the' ,enameled plate may then be baked in the ordinary manner employed inbak'ing enameled painted pottery.

When it is desired to have the faces of the lass pieces 3 and the material 4 formimr theackground flush With each other, the fillersheet 5 is notplaced inthe mold, the plastic material 4 being placed directly in the mold upon the design-sheet 2.

In the plate formed by my improved process it is necessary to cut from glass only that portion representing the foreground of-the design, while in glass mosaic the background, as Well as 'the foreground, is made from glass pieces, the cutting of which additional glass pieces makes the glass-mosaic work much more expensive than by reproducing a similar design by my process. A moreartistic representation is obtained by the. use. of my rocess owing to the lack of thc numerous lines unavoid ably present in the background,

of glass mosaic, which lines result from the employment of so many pieces of glass used to form the background of the glass mosaic.

Panels, `floors, wainscoting, &c., covered with lates made by my improved process may e made artistic, comparatively inexpensive, fireproof, sanitary and durable, and may be Washed without injury.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isv 1. The process of making decorative Work for panels, floors and similar purposes, consisting in cutting from sheetlass pieces corresponding in shape to the eements respectively forminv' the foreground of a design,

then placing the glass pleces face down 1n a mold 1n separated posltlons corresponding to the design, then mserting in the mold lietween the glass pieces and in the places forming the background a filler of less thickness than the glass pieces, then placing in the mold upon the filler and the glass pieces a plastic hardening material, then permitting the plastic material to set and finally removing the molded body from the mold and filler.

2. The process of making decorative work for panels, floors and similar purposes, consisting in cutting from sheet-glass pieces corresponding in shape to the elements respectively forming the foreground ol'l a design,

then placing the glass pleces face down in a mold 1n separated positions corresponding to the design, then inserting in the mold between the glass pieces and in the places forming the background, a'filler of less thickness than the glass pieces, then plaeingin the mold upon the filler and the glass pieces a plastic hardening material, then permitting the plastic material to set, then removing the molded body from the mold and filler, and finally coating the face of the body so molded with enamel.

3. 'lhe process of making decorative work.

for panels, floors and similar purposes, consisting in placing face down in a mold, glass pieces corresponding in shape respeetivehf to the elements forming the foreground ol' a design and in separated positions corresponding to the design, then inserting in the mold in the places forming the background a vliller ol' less thickness than theglass pieces, then placing in the mold upon the filler and the glass pieces a plastic mixture of caleined magnesia; mixed wlth a solutionof chlorid of magnesia. then permitting the plastic mixture to set i andv removing the molded body from the mold and filler. V

4. 'lhe process of making decorative work for panels, floors and similar` purposes, consisting in placing face down in a mold in sepa.- rated positions, glass pieces correspol'iding in shape to the elements respectively forming IOO IIO

the foreground' of a design and in positions ture tol set, then removing the molded body 10 corresponding to the design, then inserting in from the mold and ller, and finally ooverlng the mold` 'n the places formlng the baokthe face ofthe molded. body with enamel.

'ground between land around the glass pieces, In testimony whereof I afx my signature a filler of less thickness than the glass pieces, lin presence of two subsoribingwitnesses.

then lplacing in the mold` upon the iller and v CHARLES O. NEWMAN. the g ass pieces7 a plastic mixture of oaloined Witnesses: magnesio mixed wlth a; solution of chlorid'of` WARREN D. HQUSE,

magnesia, then permitting the plastic mlx- HENRY F. ROSE. 

